So close....yet so far away

I thought I had all the funds needed for the first trip (only the first trip, but what an important trip).  I had asked all the reight questions, at least I thought I did.  Maybe I wasn't clear or people misunderstood, either way I'm a little short for the first trip.  I figure I am about $2,500 - $3,000 short. This includes the actual travel costs (airport, hotels, food etc)...minor things LOL. 

So I have two fundraisers going.  You are probably tired of hearing about them but let me tell you I can't stop talking about them until I have my daughter home with me.  I have a quilt - Wrapped in love going on.
Sponsored by Shauna Garcia.  She will posting pics of the progress.  The tree of love has been designed and fabrics picked.  It is going to be awesome.

For those of you who love Football or love someone who loves football and will or won't be watching Super Bowl this fundraiser is for you! It's a football pool!  At www.footballsquaresonline.com/game/16706  Password: 5853  You create a login and your in and can pick your squares.  The numbers will be randomly generated by the site.  Squares are $15.  All squares have to be filled to have a valid game.  There will be CASH prizes!  All squares can be paid via the chip in on the left (Dossier Submission).  This fundraiser works $1,000 will be raised for Sophia's adoption.  I just need 100 people to donate $15.00 each or 50 donating $30 or any other combination to fill the 100 squares.  :)

Thanks to Adeye and the opportunity to get my story out there.  I am single and soon to be a first time mom once my adoption is final.  I can't wait to get to her country and except her referral!  I might as well be carrying her myself like a traditional pregnancy, I love her so much! 

Thank you all for stopping by.  If you feel led to donate and would need a tax deduction message me or comment and I can give you my adoption agency address, they are a non-profit as well.  If you don't need a tax deduction you can use my chip in for Dossier Submission at the top right of the blog.  :)

God Bless.

Thank you Adeye!

I want to thank Adeye from No Greater Joy Mom She is promoting families who are in needs of funds to adopt thier children.  I am adopting a precious little girl she will be my first child and I am so excited to be a mom.  I am just a few papers away from submitting my dossier which means I will get to go and meet her.  I am so excited and a little nervous that all the necessary funds will be there.  I have faith though that I am on the path God has guided me too and I know he will provide.  Thank you for considering helping my journey, either by saying a little prayer, sharing my blog and story, and or making a donation.  Every donation big or small counts!


I have two fundraisers going on right now:

Quilt of Love ($15 a leaf embroidered with your name or $25 for a block you can design or we can do for you) sponsored by Shauna Garcia.

And

This one is for my sports fans! Super bowl square fundraiser pool. Squares will be generated randomly by a program you can pick your squares. You make the donation, via the chip in please note your donation is for the POOL because it is a fundraiser squares are $15. www.footballsquaresonline.com/game/16706 Password: 5853 There will be $500 in prizes

(1^st Qtr = $100 2^nd Qtr = $100 3^rd Qtr = $100 Final Score = $200) all squares must be sold in order for the pool to be valid.

Feel free to invite your friends!

He loves even the stubborn soul

So I am a stubborn soul.  Have been since the day I was born, just ask my mom.  J  I was what I call a “why child” (still am but not as much hee hee) or a “how child.”  When asked to do something I would ask why or how and the answer needed to make sense to me or I didn’t see the point in doing it.  As you can imagine this was very frustrating trying to convince a small child why she needed to do something.  Most times my mom said she would go with “I’m your mother and I said so,” I couldn’t argue that she was my mother and she did say so. 

What does this have to do with anything you are probably thinking.  Well even being a stubborn soul my Heavenly Father still loves and blesses me.  I have seen that love and received those blessing along this bumpy road of adoption.  There have been many times that I thought “Why is this so expensive?”  “How am I going to raise this much money,” or “How am I going to get that much money by that date?”  You know what happened every time….Heavenly Father provided.  He knows my heart and the love that I have for that precious little girl sitting in an orphanage so far away, waiting for a family.  He knows Sophia’s heart and wanting to be loved and hugged.  He is providing for us both. 

He has touched and guided many of your hearts and you have heeded that guidance and donated.  I am so appreciative of you.  I know some off you haven’t been able to donate do to your finances but then you prayed, and left a little love in the comments telling me of your support of my journey and your love of Sophia.  You also spread the word and shared my blog or Facebook page.  Because of that two matching grants were donated to my journey.  Jennifer and Joel Webb, Roofity and their Business partner Seth donated $3,000 to be matched.  Eric and Lisa Pegler set up a $500 matching grant in memory of their special son who was called home to his Heavenly Father at the tender age of 3.  I will be honest, I wanted to raise the $3,500 so I could take full advantage of the matching grants, however I thought I don’t know that is a lot to raise in one month.  I think it was January 10^th I posted on face book that over $600 had been raised towards those grants.  I was excited but thought I still have over $2,800 to raise.  Guess what…two days later my grant jumped over $2,700!!  Yep approximately $100 shy of the $2,800 I needed to get the full matching grant. 

God always amazes me and I know I shouldn’t be amazed in that He has shown me time and time again over the last year the He has this adoption and everything I need to complete it.  I just need to keep on trucking so to speak.  Doing all I can to raise the money and complete the paperwork and He will provide. 

The $ money for the dossier has been raised now on the next step the trips and all that go along with it.  I hope you will journey on with me. 

I have two fundraisers going on right now:

Quilt of Love ($15 a leaf embroidered with your name or $25 for a block you can design or we can do for you) sponsored by Shauna Garcia.

And

This one is for my sports fans! Super bowl square fundraiser pool.  Squares will be generated randomly by a program you can pick your squares.  You make the donation, via the chip in please note your donation is for the POOL because it is a fundraiser squares are $15.   www.footballsquaresonline.com/game/16706   Password: 5853 There will be $500 in prizes

(1^st Qtr = $100 2^nd Qtr = $100 3^rd Qtr = $100 Final Score = $200) all squares must be sold in order for the pool to be valid. 

Feel free to invite your friends! 

Quilt

This isn't a great photo of the quilt design but here is a glimpse into Shauna's talents.  We will try to get a darker clearer image for you all.  I'm so excited by this fundraiser and I hope you all will be a part of it.  Shauna put out a challenge on FB to raise the $2500 needed to submit my dossier by the end of the year...that's right two days...(I'll give you 3 since I'm off until Monday) If each of my readers donated $25 that would reach my goal.  The only thing is the funds need to go in the dossier chip in which isn't tax deductible however if you need the deduction you can send the donation in my name to Global Adoption Services and they are a non-profit.  Just click the link for the address and send a note stating it's for me and you would like a tax deduction.  God bless!

Quilt, Matching Donations and a great gift

I picked out a design for Sophia's quilt....want to hear about it....ok I will tell you.  It is a tree with leaves and hearts.  That is in the middle the border will be colorful squares.  There are two birds in the tree representing Sophia and me.  The leaves/hearts will be embroidered with the names of donors who donate $15.  The squares around the border will be used for those who would like to write a note of love to Sophia or a drawing and the donation for those will be $25.  Please note in the instructions or comment section if you would like on your square or if you would like to do your own.  :) 

As you may know I have two generous matching donations going on starting now through the end of January 2012.  Jennifer and Joel Webb, Seth Sutton and Roofity are matching donations up to $3000 and Eric Pegler and his wife are matching donations up to $500 in memory of thier son Alexander who went to live with Jesus at the tender age of 3. 

I was looking at my friend list on Facebook and I have over 1100 friends (those who have befriended me and those I have befriended).  If 1100 of those friends donated $25 each Sophia's fund would rise to $27,500 plus the matching donation of an additional $3500 for a grant total of $31,000 which I do believe would make me close if not fully funded.  Do you have $25 you could donate?  Do you need a tax deduction before the end of the year?  If so you can make the donation in my name to Global Adoption Services. (just send a note stating it's for Megan Meier and you would like a tax deduction letter) or if you don't need the deduction but want to make a donation you can use my Dossier Submission chip-in  on the top left of the page.  Even if you can only spare a couple of dollars.  They all add up to the ransom needed to free a beautiful precious child from a life in an institution.  I pray Sophia who turns 4 this year doesn't have to spend one day in the institution. 

Please say a little prayer, share Sophia and my story, and if led donate.

God Bless you all.

Merry Christmas!

Another Christmas miracle...
Today I was contacted by Erik Eric Pegler who recently lost his son Alexander Bryce Pegler at the young age of 3 (40 months). In Alex's honor they have offered to match donations up to $400. This fundraiser will start January 1st and run through January 31, 2012. As you know Jennifer N' Joel Webb, Roofity, and Seth Sutton have generously offered to do a matching donation up to $3000.00 I am hoping to raise those funds in the next two weeks so I can submit my dossier. If we can raise all the matching funds Sophia's dossier and first trip fund will grow by $6,800! I am hoping the donations will be made to Sophia's Dossier chip-in so I can submit it before the Eastern European holidays!

Strange Holiday season...blessings abound

Two days ago my home was burglarized.  :(  As the days progress the angrier and a little more nervous I get.  Well I lost my most used item...the laptop and other things as well as having my personal space violated and my home ransacked.  Then I found out the deductble from renters insurance was about 1/2 of the amount that I actually lost.  Doesn't seem like I will be able to replace the items stolen.  I was also told I wouldn't probably hear from the claims department until next week.

I got a call the day I placed the claim.  They said due to the age of the items I wasn't going to get a lot but minus the deductible I would get a little bit.  Which in my opinion is a blessing. 

I called my manager to make her aware of the break in.  They kicked the door in. Any way she notifies me that I was the resident winner of $250 off next months rent!  Another blessing.

Then I received an email from Jennifer Webb regarding fundraising.  We talked today and her and her husband Joel, his company, Roofity, and Seth Sutton want to do a matching donation fundraiser in the amount of....wait for it...$3,000!  So if we can reach $3,000 Sophia's adoption fund will grow by $6,000.  I need another $2,500 for the dossier submission out of my funds not the FSP (RR tax deductible donation) and about 9,500 for the first trip. 

**A request. If you are going to donate I ask that you please make your donation in the Chip in at the top of the page titled Dossier Submission.  It is not a tax deductible site.  If you need the tax deduction could I ask you to contact me either on Facebook or here and I can give you my adoption agency information they are a non-profit and then the money will go to the Dossier Submission fund!  God Bless. 

The adoption agency said once the dossier is submitted I should be travelling very quickly.  I will get to meet and accept my referral!  Talk about a blessing!

I will be starting an autograph quilt to take with me on one or more of my trips to her country!  I want her to know how many people love her and helped to give her a family.  I will be asking for a donation per square and the donation will be doubled by the matching dontation!  The autograph square will be sent to you and you can sign it drawer on it what ever love you want to send to this precious little girl.  I will also send a SASE to return the square to me so I can put them all together into a quilt with the help of my friend Shauna. 

The matching donation isn't an on goind event there is a time limit.  I would love to see it hit by the end of the year. So that I can get that dossier submitted before all the Eastern European holidays in January.  The drive will go through the end of January but as I said I pray we can meet and exceed the grant by the end of 2011!   **Thank you to whomever donated and made my FSP jump a $100! Since I wrote this post.

I want to wish my readers and all who pass through my blog a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy, healthy, joyous, safe and full of love New Year!  God Bless xoxo

So what do you think?  Can we do it?